Based on a real-life story, Tous les matins du monde is a sombre, melancholic study
about two men’s obsession to achieve perfection in their musical art... [More...]
The crime thriller has been a popular target for parody in France ever since the heyday
of the genre in the 1950s. Whilst Cible émouvante is an entertaining
film with many plus points... [More...]
Whilst somewhat heavy on sentiment and dialogue, this wartime romantic drama from Jean-Loup
Hubert has a great deal going for it. The deeply melancholic photography evokes
not just the mood of the period in which the... [More...]
Having established himself as a film director in the 1990s, through his entertaining and
original comedy dramas, such as Les
Apprentis (1995), Pierre Salvadori moves into very different territory for his
fourth full-length... [More...]
Aime ton père is a film that wilfully blurs fiction and real-life experiences
in a typically French variant of the road movie. Writer-director Jacob Berger uses
his own experiences as the basis for the narrative... [More...]
One of the most depressing trends in French cinema recently is the one
where relatively inexperienced film directors attempt to combine genres
which are manifestly incompatible... [More...]
There is a cold mortuary feel to this sombre portrayal of an impossible
love affair involving a coquettish noblewoman and a soldier set in the
early part of the Nineteenth Century... [More...]
Director Christine Dory marks her feature debut with this compelling
tragicomic portrayal of a fraught romance involving two disparate
individuals... [More...]
